Crossword-Solution: WINES 5 letters, 115 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Harsanyi was the soloist at one of Thomas’s concerts there, and after the performance the conductor had taken him off to a _Rathskeller_ where there was excellent German cooking, and where the proprietor saw to it that Thomas had the best wines procurable.

Thus society accepted him, petted him, made much of him, since his horses were the finest in the country, his _fêtes_ and wines the most sought after.

The evening was now becoming dark, when a Jewish servant entered the apartment, and placed upon the table two silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil; the richest wines, and the most delicate refreshments, were at the same time displayed by another Israelitish domestic on a small ebony table, inlaid with silver; for, in the interior of their houses, the Jews refused themselves no expensive indulgences.

She had eaten well; she had tasted the good, rich wines, and they must have turned her head, for she bowed pleasantly to all as she withdrew from table.

Wines and brandies from France; teas of various flavor, from China; and rich, aromatic coffee from Java, all conspired to swell the tide of high life, where pride and indolence rolled and lounged in magnificence and satiety.